Garry Kasparov Quotes

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

To me, politics is a pile of tricks.

There are no techniques in politics.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket.

Review" is a great word in politics. It will last you almost an entire election cycle if you play it right.

[On political campaigns:] Get an elbow, give an elbow.

[Politics in America is:] A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

Parties in Washington are a natural extension of the working day.... Everybody uses everybody.

I know what Hitler is up to. He thinks he has outsmarted me, but actually it is I who have outsmarted him.

I’ll be down there pressing the flesh.

There are little games that go on in politics.

I'm not into political gamesmanship.

In politics things change, in politics timing is important, and in politics, how I move, I don't tell you.

Let's face it, politics in this country is coin-operated. Does that really equate to a real democracy? It's very difficult to say.

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and so forth, which is just not true. It's about money.

I've always done party building and party fundraising.

Democrats, more often than not, do not play the game of politics correctly.

In politics, you make use of every opportunity.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!